by Art (Lao Du) | Apr 8, 2019 | General
Well, we’re all getting older. And you can’t set the clock back. Not only can’t you run a mile as fast as a sloth (these animals are slower than centipedes), hit a ball over the fence for a home run or jump over the tennis net like you used to, but your joints are so...
by Art (Lao Du) | Mar 14, 2019 | General
Hi: First, thanks to Robert Berson for bringing to our attention a dance program, Dance For Parkinson’s Disease, which is providing free weekly classes from March 13th to May 15th in the Ossining Library (not the library in Sing Sing – repeating – do...
by Art (Lao Du) | Mar 9, 2019 | General
There’s been talk, whispers at first, then louder rumblings, about some ‘questionable behavior’ by the treasurer of PPP – that would be me. For example, some of the Bored members didn’t appreciate our purchase of extra cake for me after the last recent party. Well,...
by Art (Lao Du) | Mar 7, 2019 | General
We are all mortal men … and mortal women, and we will eventually end up in a … cemetery or crematorium. Or be buried at sea or something like that. But regardless of how we are disposed, we will ultimately decompose and eventually our constituent elements will be made...
by Art (Lao Du) | Feb 28, 2019 | General
Congratulations to Robert Cattan and Ed Campbell for winning the doubles tournament held to commemorate the 100th session of Ping Pong Parkinson. Kudos, as well, to Andy Schloat for his huge generosity in providing a fantastic Ping Pong Cake. (Jeez, it was good.) We...
by Art (Lao Du) | Feb 20, 2019 | General
by Art (Lao Du) | Feb 15, 2019 | General
I was snuffling at my next session with my 200 dollar per hour headshrinker. He asked me why I was making the respiratory noises and I lied. I told him I had a cold, but I was really about to cry. He handed me a tissue (for which I wondered if there would be an extra...
by Art (Lao Du) | Feb 12, 2019 | General
Ya know what my guru, the shrink, said? He said that, to some degree, we are all McArthur Wheelers! That’s right. Maybe our ideas are not as outrageous as Wheeler’s ludicrous folly, but we share with him, unhappily, a penchant for being overconfident – a confidence...
by Art (Lao Du) | Feb 10, 2019 | General
I’m rated a few hundred points higher than this one guy at the club – let’s call him Nemesis Uno – and you’d expect that I’d beat the pants off him all the time. I don’t. In fact, it’s the opposite. Nemesis Uno beats the crap outta ME! Why? Why Lord? What did I do?...
